The End of Tennessee
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The End of Tennessee

A Memoir

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The End of Tennessee

A Memoir

About this book

Southern Review of Books Best Southern Books of August 2024

A haunting memoir of childhood trauma, building a life, and living with wounds that never heal

"Not a year before I ran away from home at seventeen, I stepped out of the house at dusk, still able to see shrub oaks thinned out for winter, fame flower, too, and dun clay so wet the smell of it seemed settled in my skin." So begins Rachel M. Hanson's debut memoir about growing up impoverished, uneducated, and surrounded by violence. In lyrical, fragmented prose, she lays bare the impossible choice between self-preservation and her love for five younger siblings for whom she had become a second mother. As the years pass, Hanson struggles with guilt for leaving her siblings as she slowly realizes she could not save them. The End of Tennessee is a testament to a sister's love, resilience, and determination, a book for anyone who has left one life to create another.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE END of TENNESSEE
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. On Seventeen in Appalachia
  8. Talking in Tongues
  9. Older Brothers
  10. Haunted
  11. Dirty Water
  12. Histories
  13. Babies
  14. After Birth
  15. Education
  16. End of Ballet
  17. Prism
  18. Father
  19. End of Prayer
  20. End of Tennessee
  21. Dislocations
  22. Breaking
  23. Lies
  24. Ways of Leaving
  25. Sunnyside
  26. Writing You
  27. Epilogue
  28. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS